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First Overnight Cook!

SouthJerseyEgg
SouthJerseyEgg Posts: 12
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
First, thanks to everyone on this forum who via the "search" tool have silently helped me with my new Egg :)

I've had my Egg since May and have had some very good cooks so far: babybacks, wings, chicken thighs and even pizza. For the holiday weekend, I decided to take another step and do a Boston Butt. I bought an 8 pounder from the local butcher and set up the Egg for the first overnighter. The meat went on about 9PM (which was too early) with the fire reading a steady 240. I watched everything until about 1PM - the Egg held the temp beautifully between 240-255. Only one time did it creep up causing me to adjust a bit. (When everyone states that the lower vent is a credit card width open, they mean it!) I had a temp probe in the dome and the meat and at about 4AM the dome began to drop to about 220. A little wiggle rod work (Thanks Tony!) and everything was back to normal. The alarm went off at 195 degrees at about 8:30 AM. Looks like I expected it to take somewhat longer. Next time I think I'll start the meat around 11PM or so. Anyway, I took it out, foiled it and wrapped it in a towel and into the cooler it went for two and a half hours. Pulled it around 11:30 for a noon-time meal and it was fabulous!!! I am looking into a Digi-Q since while it was not the most eventful overnight cook, it also was not the best night of sleep I've ever had ;)

Also, seems that everyone on here is a bit preferential to "food porn", I made sure to take a couple of pics:

IMG_0171.jpg - just out of the Egg -

IMG_0170.jpg - ready to wrap -

IMG_0174.jpg - Ahhhh...

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